Elegance: The Seeberger Brothers and the Birth of Fashion Photography - Hardcover

Chardin, Virginie; Demange, Xavier; Aubenas, Sylvie

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0811859428 ISBN 13: 9780811859424

Publisher: Chronicle Books, 2007

Synopsis

Modern fashion photography was born when three brothers, Parisian postcard photographers, shifted their lenses to the upper echelon of French society in the early twentieth century. As impromptu portraits of beautiful women in inimitable finery at racecourses, resorts, and caf s began to appear in magazines, courant designers such as Chanel, Herm s, and Madeleine Vionnet rushed to send their models to posh watering holes to be photographed with the beau monde. The first-ever showcase of 300 rich black and white S eberger images, this luxe collection is a must-have for fashionistas, Francophiles, and vintage clothing enthusiasts. Elegance recalls a bygone era of glamour, and illuminates the candid beginnings of a now highly stylized photographic form.

About this title

About the Author:

Virginie Chardin is the author of several photography volumes.

Xavier Demange is an art historian and contributes to numerous museum exhibition catalogs.

Sylvie Aubenas is a chief curator at the Bibliothèque Nationale de France. She lives in Paris.

About this edition

• Publisher: Chronicle Books
• Publication date: 2007
• ISBN 10: 0811859428
• ISBN 13: 9780811859424
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 224